Something is not right with home

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[This is Hiccup. Slowly pacing forward, with an absent expression on his face. He looks very tried too. Toothless, his dragon, follows him from a distance, looking utterly confused at him.]

[This is Hiccup, still. Noticed the changes in his reality. The temples... the strange, glowing, whatever things that people call portals... and that huge, maybe god-made metal boat-like-thing on the ocean... and the olive trees. The. Olive trees. He only had heard about them in books. It's just too much...]

Too muuuuch... S-sometimes I-I wonder if this isn't the gods playing a trick on me, if this isn't the end of the world, this must be it, if it's my luck, it definitely is the end of the world... [He mutters to himself in disbelief still just walking forward without any goal, followed by Toothless.]

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[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[That is -- a worrying thought.]

Hopefully we'll have figured out what is behind the machine by then and will come up with a way to prevent that.

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Indeed.]

Uuuh, I really hope. I kinda, start to have enough of the things it does... [Hiccup purses his mouth, thinking about the latest 'trick' it has pulled on him.]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Speaking of, how are you and Toothless doing?

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

Oh uh, you know just some trust issues, nothing... important. [Nervous laugh.] I'm surprised he still puts up with me even after I tried to kill him... again.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Ah. I guess it'd be hard to explain something like magical candies to a dragon ... still, if he's sticking around, it must mean he knows that wasn't really you he saw.

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Sighs, but smiles a little.] All of Berk's fishes won't be enough to satisfy him after this. He got more demanding, but I can't ask for a better friend.

But, but, did you get affected as well, Conan? I hope you didn't.

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I don't know -- a full stomach goes a long way, Hiccup-kun.

I noticed people acting weird and worked out something was wrong so I avoided eating the candy, luckily!

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

Uh, that is really is lucky. I wish I would have gotten your letter earlier. Though I don't think I would have realized that something is wrong with the candy...

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

When you meet three people in a row who all want to hurt you ... it's a bit obvious!

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Blinks... !!!] ... and ARE YOU ALRIGHT? I mean, you seem fine, bu-but, uh- so are you okay?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I'm fine, I'm fine! Only one of them tried to hurt me, and when he did, I had plenty of time to think myself back home!

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

Aaah, this is bad, this is so bad. People might be still around, playing their evil twin, and hurting others, Conan!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

If there is, they won't be hard to spot -- and now we know about it, it'll be twice as obvious!

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Sighs.] Now I'm glad Toothless doesn't eat candy. Gwen said the coins were in the back of the shop, shouldn't we get more? Or is there enough already?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen or heard of anyone acting oddly, so we're probably okay -- although getting more wouldn't be a bad idea! Just be careful -- did Duo tell you about what happened to the people who went to the shop?

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

Everyone went back to what they were? I hope it's true. Eh, no... He didn't. [Frowns a little.] Why what happened?

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Getting the things to break the spell wasn't as easy as walking into the shop -- people were shown the things that they're most frightened of! It was pretty scary.

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

What...? [And now he feels bad.] That mustn't have been a very happy experience. Gwen... Gwen did that all for me... For us!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Of course not -- I think that's what the people that own this place wanted.

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

They wanted them to suffer? [Frowns.] This place really keeps being more and more like Hel, actually...

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

It could be worse -- it's not like we're trapped here after all, Hiccup-kun!

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Hiccup is thinking about that a little.] I-I guess. But somehow it feels strange when you arrive here, no? Somehow familiar... [He can't exactly grasp it yet though.]

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

Familiar? How do you mean?

[dragonnerd.livejournal.com]

[Hiccup looks around as he is searching for his answer.] Liiiike, this place would be more real than back home. But that could just be me!

[holmes-fanatic.livejournal.com]

[Conan's never paused to think about it, so Hiccup's words strike him as curious. He repeats them carefully, storing them to memory.]

More real than back home ...